ANKARA - In the Kobanê Trial, the prosecutor demanded that a criminal complaint be filed against the lawyers who did not attend the hearing after the court board did not change the hearing period. The imprisoned politicians did not attend the hearing, either.

 

The 3rd session of the 6th hearing of the Kobanê Trial, which was opened against 108 people, 21 of whom were imprisoned, including the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former Co-Chairs Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş, Democratic Regions Party (DBP) former Co-Chair Sebahat Tuncel, HDP Central Executive Board members and executives, started to be held at the Sincan Prison Campus.

 

Lawyers and politicians did not attend the hearing

 

HDP MPs attended the hearing held by the Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court board. HDP former Urfa MP İbrahim Binici, who tried without arrest, and Kurdish PEN member Nezir Çakar, who was jailed pending trial, were present in the courtroom.  The lawyers of the case and the politicians who were jailed pending trial did not attend the hearing by notifying excuses.

The hearing started with the chief judge’s reading the documents added to the file. The chief judge noted that the lawyers of the case and the politicians on trial continued to notify excuses.

 

Prosecutor requested to file a criminal complaint

 

Then the prosecution took the floor and demanded the rejection of excuse requests, acceptance of the excuses of those who submitted petitions due to health reasons, facilitation for the defendants to make their defense. The prosecution demanded that in terms of those who did not come to the file and were not present in the courtroom, and as it was understood that the hearings should continue, a criminal complaint be filed against the lawyers for misconduct of their duties because they did not attend the hearing. The prosecution demanded the continuation of the judicial control of the defendants who were taken under judicial control. Also, the prosecution demanded the continuation of the detention of those who are jailed pending trial.

 

The chief judge recessed the hearing for preparation for the interlocutory decisions.